10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BUMBAILIFF»
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The bloody theater: or, Martyrs mirror of the defenseless ...
Then a woman undertook to make the first blow with a slipper, whereupon others
began to throw stones at the bumbailiff. Master Jans was then pushed by the
citizens, and concealed in Jan Sempel's house, opposite the town hall ; but the ...
Thieleman Janszoon Braght, 1837
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The New monthly magazine and universal register. [Continued ...
You are a large man and a strong, and are armed with a warrant I make no doubt,
" Frank cried; "but I advise you not to lay hands upon me, or you may get the
worst of it, Mr. Bumbailiff." " Bumbailiff! I a base bumbailiff !" roared the giant ...
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The New Monthly Magazine
You are a large man and a strong, and are armed with a warrant I make no doubt,
" Frank cried ; " but I advise you not to lay hands upon me, or you may get the
worst of it, Mr. Bumbailiff." " Bumbailiff! I a base bumbailiff !" roared the giant ...
You are a large man and a strong, and are armed with a warrant I make no doubt,
" Frank cried ; " but I advise you not to lay hands upon me, or you may get the
worst of it, Mr. Bumbailiff." " Bumbailiff! I a base bumbailiff !" roared the giant ...
You are a large man and a strong, and are armed with a warrant I make no doubt,
" Frank cried ; "but I advise you not to lay hands upon me, or you may get the
worst of it, Mr. Bumbailiff." " Bumbailiff! I a base bumbailiff !" roared the giant ...
Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, 1853
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The Flitch of Bacon: Or, The Custom of Dunmow : a Tale of ...
“You are a big man and a strong, and are armed with a. warrant, I make no doubt,
” Frank cried; “but I advise you not tollay hands upon me, or you may get the
worst of it, Mr. Bumbailiff.” “Bumbailiff! I a base bumbailiffl” the giant roared ...
William Harrison Ainsworth, 1854
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Britain - 1750-1900: Higher Ability Pack
(1987) Source L From Report of the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring
Population 1842, by Edwin Chadwick Glossary Bumbailiff - bailiff with the power
of arrest The speakers in opposition to the plan [for new sewers] related to the
means of ...
8
Three Comedies: The Birds; The Clouds, Translated by William ...
13. bumbailiff: B. B. Roger's solution, perhaps too English for American ears; but
the pun is almost untranslatable. The Greek word here translated as bumbailiff is
dwapxos, inserted as a surprise in place of the expected "bedbug" or "flea." 13.
Aristophanes, William Arrowsmith, 1969
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A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both with ...
The part on which we sit ; it is used, in composition, for any thing mean or low, as
bumbailiff. BUMBAILIFF, bum-ba'-llf. s. A bailiff of the meanest kind, one that is
employed in arrests. BUMBARD, bombard. s. Bombard. BUMBAST, bombast', s.
She had been very angry indeed over it, especially the word 'bumbailiff' ; 'queer
how old ladies take an exception to it,' he thought. "Why the hell can't you go ?"
he growled. "I shan't sell anything. God knows it wouldn't fetch enough to be
worth ...
